Sheida Soleimani grew up hearing about her parents’ political activism in Iran, and their eventual escape to the US to avoid persecution. Now, she’s sharing their stories in a new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The World’s Bianca Hillier met Soleimani at the museum to learn more.
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Using humor and satire in photographic assemblage, Sheida Soleimani highlights overlooked, misconstrued, and difficult themes that shape the human experience, examining in particular media representation of global issues.
In her meticulously crafted and, at times, cryptic still lifes and tableaux, Soleimani exposes the strains in U.S. and Middle East relations, lays bare human rights violations, confronts dark chapters of state violence and oppression, and, more recently, navigates the somber nuances of revisiting painful family histories of resistance, exodus, and persecution.
Sheida Soleimani’s work explores intersections of art and activism. She melds sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight critical perspectives on events across the Middle East, unpicking the complex power dynamics between the region and Western nations.
Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American multimedia artist, activist, and professor. Her innovative works in ‘constructed’ tableau photography spark dialogues on the intersection of art and protest, particularly emphasizing ongoing human rights violations in Iran.
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Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani tells her family history through her photography, after years of creating political works
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